In fact, six months ago, I had read the original script of the movie. The author wrote "Blackjack". The original book is very good. But what I didn't expect was that the movie was even better, allowing me to watch the entire movie without missing a beat even though I fully knew the plot.
Spoilers begin below. Students who haven't seen the film and don't want to spoil the fun can stop here.
First of all, there is still the inevitable plot summary: Mark, the founder of Facebook, was studying at Harvard University. After being dumped by his girlfriend one day, the cynicism and genius of the tech house broke out in full force. In a few hours, he invaded the entire Harvard dormitory system and obtained Everyone's photo information then created a website called FACEMASH, which attracted tens of thousands of hits within two hours and brought down the Harvard campus network. Fame. After the two rich second-generation brothers found out, they approached Mark and asked him to help them design an intra-school social network. Mark readily agreed. But after a few months of delay, Ya released the pigeons of the rich second-generation brothers. She and her friend Eduardo, a Jewish boy, started Facebook and went online. At the same time, she obtained angel investment with the help of Silicon Valley star Sean Parker. Afterwards, the rich second-generation brothers sued Mark for being put in pigeons, and the Jewish boy Eduardo also sued Mark for the dilution of his equity. In the end, Sean Parker was also driven away by Mark on suspicion of drugs.
If you look at it this way, the plot is nothing more than a story that shows Mark's classmates betrayed their relatives and separated, and won the world but became a loner. But the original book and film avoided such masked characterization. Instead, it uses a method of interlaced narrative with several litigation branches and the birth of FACEBOOK, coupled with sharp lines and dialogues, the entire movie is not only open in terms of plot, but also in terms of narrative, leaving enough space for the audience. The space to analyze and judge the merits and demerits of the characters in the play by oneself.
For example, the rich second-generation brothers sued Mark for plagiarizing their ideas. You said that Mark plagiarized. He created the FACEMASK website before he knew the rich second-generation brothers, and the social networking site was a hot spot for countless technical experts at that time. Fu Erdai and MARK are just on the same starting line; you have to say that MARK did not plagiarize, but the key idea of "registering the website with an email address suffixed with .EDU" was told to MARK by the brothers, and this idea did play a key role Otherwise, why was MARK willing to spend $65 million to settle out of court with the two brothers?
Another example is that Eduardo's equity was diluted from 30% in the initial stage to 0.3% after obtaining financing. You say Mark is a black man, but Eduardo, as the company's CFO, played a petty temper and froze the company's account when Facebook needed funds most. It really shouldn't; but you say Eduardo deserves it, and it's poisonous enough that Mark and Sean let Ed happily sign a contract that's not good for him.
From the point of view of narrative techniques, this film is the same as Inception, skilled, beautiful, and has a slight breakthrough on the basis of its predecessors.
Some snippets and thoughts:
The part where Mark hacks the entire Harvard dorm network in a few hours, with a sultry frat party, a luxury villa on one side, on a low-pitched electronic soundtrack composed by Trent, the soul of Nine Inch Nails , feasting and feasting, tall, strong and sunny rich children with the best social resources are indulging in their usual way; one side is the cold Harvard boys' dormitory, and the lonely, lonely, cold, and cold engineering and wretched man MARK is curled up in front of the laptop screen, facing the flashing lights. Moving code and data are trying to use new technology to subvert the social way of the whole society.
This part of the film looks very FEEL, but in fact this part is artistically processed. Because the process of Mark's intrusion into the entire Harvard dormitory system was far more exciting than this: he didn't do all this while sitting in the dormitory, he carried a laptop in the middle of the night, sneaked into all Harvard dormitory buildings, and cracked one by one. And download the dormitory student file of each building.
It is said that Mark still doesn't think this is a hacking act. First, because the school's network security is so poor, his "intrusion" process has little technical content; second, he feels that all he does is to help It's a busy school, and it's just breaking some barriers that hinder the free flow of information.
But it is precisely because of this FACEMASH website that MARK was complained by many women's associations, which made him deliberately add detailed personal privacy setting options when writing FACEBOOK.
My opinion is. When Mark wrote FACEMASH, he was a wretched man in science and engineering, and a typical sign of a wretched man in science and technology is that he doesn't know what "girls feel" at all.
Bill Gates went to Harvard to give a speech, Mark and his friends went to listen, and when Bill said that he dropped out of school to start Microsoft, his eyes lit up.
When he founded Facebook a few months later and used the summer to move the entire company to California, he never thought of going back to Harvard to continue his studies.
At the same time, Eduardo was floating in NY. While attracting investment for Facebook, he was obsessed with working and earning some internship experience to lay the foundation for entering Wall Street after graduation.
Here's another joke:
FACEBOOK recruited a young Chinese named Chen Shijun in its early days. This young man is skilled but rambunctious. Often weeks away from the office. Resigned after only 7 months of work.
Then the supervisor talked to him and said STEVE (Chen Shijun's English name), the prospects of our company are still very good, and the salary is also very high. Besides, you just mortgaged a villa in LA with your girlfriend, and you owe the bank one A lot of money, as a house slave, is it inappropriate for you to resign to start a business?
Chen Shijun was absent-minded and perfunctory, and finally said, I have made up my mind to resign, and that's it.
The supervisor was helpless and said, "Okay, but...the laptop that the company gave you...can you pay it back first?"
Chen Shijun: …
More than a year later, Chen Shijun sold the YouTube video site he founded to GOOGLE for $160 million.
This is the case with Daniel's entrepreneurship, after seeing a goal and then breaking the boat and leaving no way out, what a Harvard degree, mortgage pressure, and Wall Street internship opportunities in big companies, go to hell. Brother is going to conquer the world, so I don't have time to worry about it.
The prototype characters of the rich second-generation brothers in the film are not easy-going. The brothers are tall, handsome and wealthy. They are also the sixth in the Olympic rowing. iPhone in the machine.
But the two brothers were ruthlessly released by MARK. After that, the first choice for the two was to complain to Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard at the time. As a result, the nose is gray. The rich second-generation brothers said, the principal, we have an IDEA that was stolen by mark, and this idea is worth millions of dollars! Principal Summers said I didn't see that much. The rich second-generation brothers said, you don't understand the concept of wealth. Principal Summers was on fire, saying that I was the former US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, and I was most qualified to speak on the issue of money. Fuck off you two.
The failure to create a social network to MARK is not the biggest misfortune of these two rich second generation. The biggest misfortune is that there is no place for them to hide and escape from this failure. The brothers went to the UK to participate in the Royal Rowing Race. The aristocratic uncles from the British Isles shook hands and said WELL DONE BOYS when they saw them. My daughter has uploaded the photo of today's race to Facebook. You can register an account to watch it. . hey, do you have a facebook account?
The early president of Facebook, Sean Parker, played by Justin in the film, also has a lot of background: the founder of the free MP3 sharing software Napster. Ya founded two companies, NAPSTER and PLEXO, and the last one was kicked out by the VC of the other company sued by the Music Association.
In the film, MARK and SEAN met for the first time in a luxury restaurant, and SEAN was talking about his entrepreneurial journey. MARK basically listened with a worship mentality, while Eduardo thought that SEAN was a second-hand dealer and a talker. SEAN said, don't look at me losing $30 million to the music company, they just won in court. And I won out of court.
Eduardo immediately choked, saying that your kid lost 30 million, what did you win?
SEAN glanced at him and said, are you still spending money on CDs now or what are you thinking.
STEVE JOBS's Apple PC in the garage changed the computer industry forever, SEAN PARKER's NAPSTER in the basement changed the music industry forever, MARK ZUCKBURG's FACEBOOK in the school dorm changed forever the way people socialize.
Most of the rules of this world may be set and controlled by the upper class at the top of the food chain, but the rules of this world will be changed by the genius techies at the grassroots. Tech nerds see a huge desire or need for a certain technology and then create the product or service that people crave. As a result, the monopoly rules carefully formulated by the long-established multinational corporations and the wealthy aristocrats collapsed in an instant, and a small hole was drilled in the dam. Flock to these geniuses. And then, the dam will fall apart in an instant, and an irreversible trend will follow, and those big companies that once stood tall must bend down and follow this trend. IBM started producing personal PCs, new recordings by artists from major music companies began to be available online as MP3 downloads, and all the big internet portals started putting a "SHARE TO FACEBOOK" button on every web page (except the Celestial Dynasty, you know).
Once again, the counter-attack of the wretched engineering man changed the rules of the game, and once again, the genius technical house successfully saved the world. END OF STORY, GOOD NIGHT.
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